I don't want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Take anything that is above you to God, lift it, bless it and release it and see what God will do.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you.

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

Nobody else can make the sound you make.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.